Or don't you know, brothers {The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominionover a man for as long as he lives?

So then if, while the husbandlives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husbanddies, she is freefrom the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Whatshall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn'thaveknown sin, exceptthrough the law. For I wouldn'thaveknowncoveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet." {Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21}

Did thenthatwhich is goodbecomedeath to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by workingdeath to me throughthatwhich is good; thatthrough the commandment sin mightbecomeexceedingsinful.